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My personal opinion is that the frame is a bit of a Trojan horse for widening the hardware they can run games (via Steam) on. With folks playing more and more indie and lower power requirement games, the rise of retroid pockets and Android gaming in general has taken off, and initiatives like gamehub lite have made it possible to run even Skyrim on these low power handhelds.

On the same token, the amount of performance per watt that Apple has been able to get out of custom arm based silicon is astounding. Valve has said they wouldn’t release another steam deck unless it represented a generational leap. That sort of leap would be something like the intel —> m1 that Apple produced.

What’s most exciting for me, is better steam support on multiple architectures. I think what’s most exciting for Valve, is their software and storefront running on more devices and providing a better experience than ever before. From VR to the deck to the desktop to the living room, I think their strategy at this point is pretty clear.

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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Doubt it. All the news has said "semi-custom" chip like the steam deck did when it came out. Valve has tweaked an existing x64 CPU again.

Not to say it's impossible, since AMD does have an arm license, but not likely

[–] orochi02@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ayo what? Arm license? So not everyone can just make an arm processor ?

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, you can buy just the instruction set or fully designed cpu.

nvidia wanted to buy them recently but the deal didn't go through

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